Calixte Delmas | |
Birth Date: | 18 January 1906 |
Birth Place: | Perpignan, France |
Death Place: | Joinville-le-Pont, France |
Calixte Delmas (18 January 1906 - 5 April 1927) was a French wrestler and rugby player. He competed in the freestyle featherweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1]
In 1922, he was the wrestling champion of Paris and the Greco-Roman vice-champion of France at 15. In 1924 he was the national champion and the youngest participant at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, where he reached the quarter finals.[2]
He died from an accident at the military school in Joinville-le-Pont.[3] He fell from a human pyramid and broke his neck.
There is a statue of him by Raymond Sudre in the Cimetière Sud de Saint-Mandé (South Cemetery of Saint-Mandé, birth date wrong on the statue).